Dear god NAACP, where do you think people might get the idea of the stereotype of the ignorant black American who can't read and who is always looking to make a quick buck off of their skin color? Would that be because of you? Yeah, I think it might.

I worked briefly (less than 7 months then I moved on for more $) in marketing for a company that makes an extremely delicious light ranch salad dressing in a jar (sold in the veggie section of the market), headquartered in the deep south. I was the admin puke with no authority or respect, so when given the very bland company newsletter, I dove in and took charge and jazzed it up. Added graphics and space fillers (trivia, news to use, etc) to fill the blanks. After the second month, the admin puke in retail (who tacked on the retail stats) decided to get creative and add something "cool" and "interesting" to her portion. She added "the origin of the term "to be fired", as in, in ancient Scotland, an undesirable group's (aka "clan's) soddy would be set aflame to chase them out (how freakin' motivational....ya' bonehead.) Anyway, it got published. The production floor, 99% black here in the deep south, read it. Some of them FLIPPED...THE.....FARK....OUT.... They saw "clan" and "fire" and the entire factory shut down. They interpreted the worst, most obscure meaning into a harmless (albeit poorly thought out)article. The blacks in the offices, the white collar employees, were not offended or outraged to my knowledge, in fact, they seemed embarrassed by the turmoil. Things did calm down, and to this day, you, the consumer, enjoy your Light Ranch dressing.

I don't mean to make any judgement or profound statement, merely an observation. Granted, the chick posting the story about the origin of "being fired" was an insensitive bonehead, to my CA-raised self, this was a dynamic that caught me off guard. It struck me as extreme hypersensitivity to an innocent faux pas. If I am wrong, I trust I will be corrected on this forum.

My mom is a CNA at a nursing home, and a reasonable portion of the staff is black. She's irritated because a coworker got canned off second shift due to a wide variety of job negligence, and then said coworker sued claiming she got fired due to her race. So now she and another girl are coming back under that guise, when in fact they got canned for not doing their freaking jobs correctly. Apparently this is why my mom works third shift... she doesn't have to put up with such crap.

/worked at a power plant and there was a Token Black Guy on my shift//seriously. they called him Token Black Guy. "yeah, he's never getting fired."///good at his job though

lisarenee3505:I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: Those colored people sure do get uppidity....

/are they ever going to change the name of their organization?

No kidding! If I called an African American "colored" these days, i'd find myself on the receiving end of a hate-crime.

Yes, because organizations like the NAACP and the UNCF which happen to be widely recognized national institutions should alter their names selected at times when "negro" and "colored" were the accepted, non-derogatory terms. Makes sense to me. I like the added touch of white victimization that you'd be on the "receiving end of a hate-crime", implying that if you called a person what is today a slur but in 1944 when the NAACP was incorporated was not, they would beat you merely and for no other reason than being white.

Dr. Mojo PhD:lisarenee3505: I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: Those colored people sure do get uppidity....

/are they ever going to change the name of their organization?

No kidding! If I called an African American "colored" these days, i'd find myself on the receiving end of a hate-crime.

Yes, because organizations like the NAACP and the UNCF which happen to be widely recognized national institutions should alter their names selected at times when "negro" and "colored" were the accepted, non-derogatory terms. Makes sense to me. I like the added touch of white victimization that you'd be on the "receiving end of a hate-crime", implying that if you called a person what is today a slur but in 1944 when the NAACP was incorporated was not, they would beat you merely and for no other reason than being white.

/GIS result for what the fark are you talking about???//think of it as a rabit with a pancake on its head

Of course, in a world without racism the people working in the NAACP would be out of their jobs, so I suppose it's in their own best interest to look under every nook & cranny to find racism wherever it still exists... and even make it up in places it doesn't.

Why don't black people have dreams? Really? There's people out there that think this is true, and enough of them seek out answers that it's 9 out of 10 on Google's top searches? I find this news to be incredible.